Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,628 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, Omaha, Nebraska (1865- )
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Dr. Cornelius Golightly (1917-1976): The Life of an Academic and Public Intellectual
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Daisy Lee Tibbs Dawson (1924-2013)
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Elson S. Floyd (1956–2015)

Explore Global African History

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The TransPacific Struggle over Citizenship: Seeking Welfare Rights in Kawasaki City, Japan and Los Angeles, California,1962-1982
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Kimberley Motley (1978?- )
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Africans at Hadrian’s Wall
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Battle of Waterberg (1904)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Earl Whaley's Orchestra Over Shanghai, ca 1937
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The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period
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I Remember Madiba: Paul Suzman Eulogizes Nelson Mandela
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Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century
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Greece and Egypt: How a Single Coin Reflects an Ancient and Enduring Relationship

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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